Re: Remote X client
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Karel Miklav wrote: I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run Thunderbird, Links etc. remotely and everything looks and works great. Now I try Firefox and WTF! it read configuration from the local machine! Links and settings are all local and it doesn't resolve as I didn't set up route on local machine yet. So it's local, but how can that happen - it was run over ssh on remote machine?! try running firefox --no-xshm -- John Oxley Systems Administrator Yo!Africa E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +263 4 858404 ext 2017 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Remote X client
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, John Oxley wrote: On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Karel Miklav wrote: I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run Thunderbird, Links etc. remotely and everything looks and works great. Now I try Firefox and WTF! it read configuration from the local machine! Links and settings are all local and it doesn't resolve as I didn't set up route on local machine yet. So it's local, but how can that happen - it was run over ssh on remote machine?! try running firefox --no-xshm Just out of curiousity, why would that matter? I've run firefox remotely server times without needing an extra flag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote X client
Take this demon-spawn firefox and point it to this address: http//www.whatismyip.com Well, what is it? What is your local IP? Do they match? point it at a file in your remote filesystem. Does it work? On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Karel Miklav wrote: I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run Thunderbird, Links etc. remotely and everything looks and works great. Now I try Firefox and WTF! it read configuration from the local machine! Links and settings are all local and it doesn't resolve as I didn't set up route on local machine yet. So it's local, but how can that happen - it was run over ssh on remote machine?! Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote X client
Tony Shadwick wrote: Take this demon-spawn firefox and point it to this address: http//www.whatismyip.com Well, what is it? What is your local IP? Do they match? point it at a file in your remote filesystem. Does it work? Thanks for your time Tony. I don't have my computer handy, but I figured out I wasn't just lost in xterms after all. It is a Mozilla family feature (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html), but it can be easily disabled in startup scripts. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remote X client
I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run Thunderbird, Links etc. remotely and everything looks and works great. Now I try Firefox and WTF! it read configuration from the local machine! Links and settings are all local and it doesn't resolve as I didn't set up route on local machine yet. So it's local, but how can that happen - it was run over ssh on remote machine?! Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
